Chipping Away at the Teflon President — everyday

United Press International: Analysis: Bush still trusts his Teflon By Martin Sieff, UPI Senior News Analyst

[O]pinion polls continue to indicate a strikingly divided American body politic, with Democrats and liberals ferociously opposed to the president but Republicans and conservatives remaining extremely happy with his performance.

Therefore, while situations like the O’Neill interview, the continuing Plame probe and the Army War College report are certainly embarrassments for the president they remain fleeting ones. Bush continues to out-Teflon Ronald Reagan.

But it may not last forever. …

The president’s Teflon is still looking good. But it is a long way to November. And political Teflon has been known to peel.

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